1938-04-21 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 21, 1938.

CANTON-HANKOW LINE STILL OPERATES AFTER 171 BOMBING ATTACKS

A romantic yet heroic tale can be Considering the frequency of the woven around the Canton-Hankow raids, the casualties thus far have Railway, the 1.096-kilometer life been, small. In addition to a few line of China in the present war, unfortunate passengers, 17 railway which has withstood no less than employees and guards were killed 171 aerial bombings from last Sep-and 25 injured during the period tember to the end of February. under review. On the average, one

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No other line of communications life was lost for every 85 bombs in China has been subjected to as dropped and one wounded for every many attacks from the air as has 58 missiles. Between September the Yuen-Han line. The reason is and December of last year, the not far to seek. Running through average monthly casualties Hupeh, Hunan and Kwangtung, nine. During the first two months the railway

connects Wu-Han; the number was reduced to three- China's de facto capital, and Can- ton, South China's biggest tropolis.

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me-

LONGEST BREAK 3 DAYS

im-

It is an inviolable rules of the At Canton, the line is connectedCanton-Hankow Railway that all up with the Canton-Kowloon Rail- [damaged sections must be way by a loop-line and the Canton-mediately repaired after the bom- Hong Kong highway. Since the bardment. The same section might capitulation of Tientsin and Shang-be bombed again to-morrow, but hai, Hong Kong and Canton have then the day's train must go become China's main outlet to the through first. Such. incessant

sea.

efforts on the part of the authori-

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HEAD OFFICE: HONG KONG.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

T. E Pearce, Esq.,

Chairman.

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Deputy Chairman.

J. K. Bousfeld, Eng.... A E. Compton, Esq.. Hon. Mr. S. E. Dodwell, Hos. Mr. M. T. Johnson,

J. P. Masson, Esq.,? G. Miskia, Esq.

E. S. Morison, Esq AL... Shields, Esq.,

Sir Vandeleur M. Grayburn, Chief Manager.

AMOX

BANGKOK

BATAVIA

BOMBAY

CALCUTTA

CANTON

CHEFOO

COLOMBO

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The

Bank' Baad Office in London undertakes Ezacuico

Truste business,

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claims acovery of Britisk Income Tax overpaid, terms which may be sscertained at any of Agencies and Branočné

R. W. ROBERTS,

Manager. Hong Kong, 1st January, 1935.

Not only that, from the Chuchowties have made it possible for the THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD. station south of Changsha one can railway to maintain its service as

switch

$10,000,000.00

Reserve and Undivided

Profits

$ 5,598,500.00

$ 2,776,726.76|

over to the Chekiang-regularly as is humanly possible. Authorised Capital Kiangsi Railway for Nanchang and The longest interruption so far was Paid-up Capital Hangchow. Following the high-

a three-day break way from Changsha, the capital of

Aside from operations passenger Hunan province, one can go west-and freight service between Wu- ward for Kweichow. From Heng-chang and Canton, the Yuen-Han chow, another main station in line has jointly inaugurated a Hunan, one can travel by motor to Kwangsi.

BOMBED REGULARLY

can

A trunk line with such military and economic significance hardly escape the notice of the Japanese. Since last September, 2 little more than half a month after the outbreak of the second Shang- hai War, the whole line has been receiving the attention of Japanese

air raiders.

through service with the Chekiang- Kiangsi Railway, making it possible for passengers to travel to Nan- chang by train.

NEW APPOINTMENTS

London, To-day.

The King has approved the ap- pointment of S. R. Bernard Crean, Chief Justice of British Guinna, to severe have been be Chief Justice of Cyprus, succeed- the Japanese attacks on Canton, ing Sir H. C. Stronge, who is re- Yingtak and Lookong in Kwang-tiring. tung, and Hengchow and Changsha

Particularly

The Dominions Secretary

has

be

in Hunan. On the other hand, appointed Mr. E. Hale, an assistant scarcely has one day elapsed with secretary in the Treasury, to out the Japanese bombers "visit-an official member of the Oversea ing" the Canton-Lokcheung section. Settlement board from April 22 in Here, it is not uncommon for the place of Mr. A. P. Waterfield, re- Japanese to stage from four to five

cently appointed member of raids a day, the duration sometimes Palestine Partition Commission. being as long as seven hours.

British Wireless.

A rough estimate places the number of missiles dropped by the invading machines at 1,994 be- tween September, 1937, and February, 1958. In these six months, there was at least

one bombing on the line a day, while each kilometer of tracks received on the average of two bombs.

What about the losses? Large sections of tracks have been torn. up, there's

no doubt about that. Craters drilled by the death-dearing projectiles have made some stations look like bee-hires.

DAMAGE TO TRAINS SMALL

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NARY ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at. the Company's Office, St. George's Building, No. 2, Ice House Street, Hong Kong, on SATURDAY, the There are at least 10 trains run- 30TH APRIL, 1938, at 12 O'CLOCK, ning on the railway each day. With NOON, for the purpose of receiv the Japanese raiders combing the ing the Report of the Directors Ime for objects of attack, it is only together with a Statement of Ac- be expected that the passenger counts for the year ended 31st and freight trains are constantly December, 1937. exposed to danger. But with rigid THE TRANSFER BOOKS of the precautions taken by the railway Company will be closed from the authorities, there have only been 23rd April, 1938, to 30th April, one or two isolated cases of Japan-1938, both days inclusive. ese attacks on freight wagons. Some damage has tors, also been done to locomotives, other rolling stocks and railway bridges, but not much.

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R. P. PHILLIPS,

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